Stingray

by Kim Joo-Young and Louis Vinciguerra

Book Overview

Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564789594
• ISBN13: 9781564789594
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher